This is my gallows tree;" and he climbed nimbly and firmly.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
His horse plunged and reared, but they nimbly avoided the animal's heels.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Yuranigh did the same, both missed it, when it unexpectedly turned upon us, took a position on higher ground beside a large tree, then descended with head erect, moving nimbly towards the horses, and the rest of the party.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell